[Nhcoll-l] Advice on waterproof/washable keyboards for lab work

[Dean Pentcheff]

An alternative approach is to consider keyboards as cheap expendables.
We've taken that approach for a wet collection digitization project we've
been working on at volume in the past few months.

Recommended (no failures yet, despite sometimes wet hands): Logitech K380
(US$29.99 each).
Less recommended, but not horrible (a couple of failures): Arteck
Ultra-Slim Bluetooth (US$17.99 each).

-Dean
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Dean Pentcheff
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pentcheff at nhm.org <dpentche at nhm.org>
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 9:44 AM Fisher, Ryan PCS <ryan.fisher at gov.sk.ca>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are considering shifting some of our pencil and paper data collection
> while doing vertebrate specimen preparation to a digital format. We are
> anticipating having laptops available (the laptops would be out of the way
> of the specimen preparation, so don’t necessarily need to be
> waterproof/washeable), but we are needing an external Bluetooth/wifi
> keyboard/mouse-trackpad that we can use to actually physically enter data.
> Of course, the data entry will be done while the specimen is being prepared
> so we need something that is washable and waterproof and can generally
> stand up to all of the fluids and fur/feathers that get on gloves and the
> preparation area. Just wondering if anyone has any advice on brands or
> options for this (or what you’ve tried and you recommend avoiding!).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> *Ryan Fisher,  **Ph.D. (he/him)*
>
>
>
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>
> Royal Saskatchewan Museum
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